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W. E. & O. W. ARNETT.

FENCE.

No. 404,026. Patented May 28, 1889.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,026, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed March 16, 1889 Serial No. 803,507. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. ARNETT and CALVIN KARNETT, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Fairmont, in the county of Marion and State of \Vest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to that class offences formed of rails, poles, or boards with wire lashings; and the objects of our improvement are to construct a fence of this class inexpensively, but in a strong manner, by means of stakes and rails and peculiar lashings and other elements combined and arranged together, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim. \Ve attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents in perspective a portion of a fence constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same, on a larger scale, on line 00 a; of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a side view of a portion of the fence. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the upper lashing to unite the cross-stakes, the upper rails of the fence, and also the brace lever or binder of the fence.

In said drawings, A represents the crossstakes, B a line of top rails in the upper crotch of said stakes, and O a line of rails in the under crotch of the stakes. In building a fence the rails C are first placed on the line of the proposed fence upon, temporary trestles or jacks, the cross-stakes are made to lean against it, and the top rails, B, are placed in the upper crotch. The rails C are then supported from each pair of stakes by a wire, D, embracing the stakes, the two parts of said wire being preferably made to cross each other under said rails C, so that under the pressure caused by the weight of the rails C it will embed it- .self in the four corners or angles of the stakes.

The upper ends of the crossed stakes A are lashed together with the top rails, B, by means of the wire E, that is passed from one side of the stakes A over the rails B, and thence around one of the stakes and under said rails to the starting-point, where the two ends of the wire are twisted together at e. To tighten brought in a vertical position and driven a few inches through the loop and its lower end into the ground, its location being close to the central line to be occupied by the fence.

of cross-stakes; but care is taken that the binder 0r lever-post F is placed altenately on opposite sides of the cross-stakes on succeeding panels of the fence, or, in other words, that one panel of the fence will have two binder-posts between its cross-stakes, while the next panel will not have any. The reason for this arrangement is that the action of the binder-post upon the Wire encircling the top of the cross-stakes while tightening it has a tendency to pull or rack the top of said crossstakes and the top rails, B, toward said binderpost, and impair the stability of the fence; but as the same rails, B, have their opposite ends pulled in the opposite direction by the next binder-post the greatest stability is given to each panel. To complete the fence, a series of rails, G, are lashed together and to the bind er-post F below the bottom crotch-rails, C, so that their spliced portions are vertically one above the other opposite said post. To produce a secure lashing and support for the rails G with a comparatively small length of wire, one end of a wire, g, is secured to the post F a short distance above the surface of the ground, and its opposite end is secured around the rails C and the post F opposite said rails. Said upper end of the wire 9 is not secured to the wire D, as it would place too much weight on said wire, and may cause it to break, nor to the top rail, B, as it would unnecessarily require at least five feet of wire more for each end of the panel than what is used by the present construction. The upper end of the wire 9, after being passed through the loop D around the rails G and post F, is twisted around the body of said wire at g The same operation is repeated at each pair After the rails G have been placed Within the long loop of the wire g, said rails are held in pairs, and the wire 9 is further tightened by short wire straps f, passing between the pairs of rails and around the Wires g and the binderpost.

Having now fully described our invention, we claim- As an improvement in fences, the combination of the cross-stakes A, the under crotchrails, O, the upper crotch-rails, B, the lashings E, surrounding the ends of the rails B and of the stakes A, the two verticalbinder-posts F between the crossed stakes of one panel of fence, the rails G, and the railsupporting wire g, having its lower end fastened to the post F and its upper end encircling the under crotch-rails, O, and said binder-post opposite WILLIAM E. ARNETT. CALVIN w. ARNETT.

Witnesses:

. W. O. JAMISON,

L. O. ARNE'IT 

